Designer / Front-end Developer
Location: GB, , Shoreditch
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Design

Company profile:
Work at dxwdxw works exclusively with the public sector to create exemplary digital services, using agile, user-centred methodologies. Since we were founded in 2008, we’ve delivered lots of great projects, from informational and consultation sites to transactional customer services and collaborative intranets.For the right people we offer a 10am start, limitless coffee and SodaStream, a shiny new Mac to work on, and a pleasant team of geeks to work with. We’ve got a nice office near the Hallowed Roundabout, with wooden floors and space invaders on the walls, a coffee machine that makes Inception noises and lots of tasty lunch that’s minutes away. We’ve all got our own interests and specialisms, but we’re brought together by a desire to build good stuff. The atmosphere in the office is relaxed but focused, with an irreverent sense of humour and a minor caffeine dependency.We think that the best projects need the best people, and good people are hard to come by. If you’re interested in any of these roles, we’d love to hear from you. There’s no closing date for applications: posts stay open for as long as it takes us to find the right person. If you think that might be you, get in touch quickly!

Job description:
At dxw we work exclusively with clients in the public sector to create exemplary digital services, using agile, user-centred methodologies.Since we were founded in 2008, we’ve delivered lots of great projects, from informational and consultation sites to transactional customer services and collaborative intranets.We offer a 10am start, limitless coffee and sodastream, a shiny new Mac to work on, and a pleasant team of geeks to work with.We've got a nice office near Old Street Roundabout, with wooden floors and space invaders on the walls, a coffee machine that makes Inception noises and lots of tasty lunch that’s minutes away.We've all got our own interests and specialisms, but we’re bought together by a desire to build good stuff. The atmosphere in the office is relaxed but focused, with an irreverent sense of humour and a minor caffeine dependency.The Designer/Front-end developer will design and implement beautiful, responsive websites that are so good they make users puke rainbows.Main dutiesSoftware DevelopmentYou will be responsible for delivery and maintenance tasks across our portfolio of WordPress websites, most of which are in the public sector. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will use your user centered design, technical, analytic, problem-solving and people skills to build exemplary web sites and services that meet or exceed the expectations of our clients and their users.You will have worked as a Designer/Front-end developer for several years. You may have worked for companies that use agile methodologies, or have an interest in agile principles that makes you keen to move to one that does. You are a passionate advocate of beautifully designed technology, able to understand and explain how exemplary design and good user experience breeds success. You must be keen to help to improve our development approach over time, so that we’re always doing things the best way we can.You will:Work with the dxw team to design and build products and projects using agile and user-centred methodologies throughoutAssist clients with WordPress-related technical and usage problemsContribute to the selection, deployment and development of the tools we use to build our projectsMentor members of staff whose design and front-end skills are less developedAdvising clients and participating in the (agile) planning processAt dxw, all staff are closely involved in the planning process. We sit with clients as a team, writing and prioritising design and development tasks (stories) together and discussing their implementation.You will:Help clients not familiar with agile development to become acquainted with agile principles, aiding the successful delivery of projects and contributing to a wider culture change towards agile practice in governmentParticipate actively in design and front-end development communities, sharing skills and knowledge and learning from othersLearn from our successes and failures over time, contributing to process improvements when necessary; helping the whole team to innovate, learn and improve

Requirements:
SkillsThe following skills are required:Strong experience of user centered design and best practice usabilityStrong HTML and CSS developmentExperience designing and building responsive websitesUnderstanding of modern accessibility best practicesFamiliarity with one or both of WordPress theme development or Ruby on RailsWorking knowledge of Javascript/jQuery and basic PHP (in templates) or HAMLFamiliarity with Adobe PhotoshopExcellent written and spoken English; good communicatorThe following skills are valuable:Familiarity with the tools and packages currently in our development toolchain: Grunt, Composer, Bower, NPM, Less/Sass, Bootstrap, GitRuby, Ruby on Rails, Haml, #URL_b7bad8ac916069eadd573f035544c52dc3519a0ba054fb7ab1ff9ba3e1525399#, AngularJS, Bootstrap, jQueryExperience of test-driven development and continuous integrationFamiliarity with testing tools such as Cucumber and SeleniumFamiliarity with the multiplicity of available front-end libraries and tools; able to recommend the right tool for the jobPersonal qualitiesArticulate and personableConfident and assertiveCompleter/finisher personalityGains genuine satisfaction from being useful and of helping people to understand new conceptsGood attention to detailWell organised and able to manage time independentlyOptimistic Problem-solver

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